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Beggar Bee Nameless

Autor Stephen K Easterbrook
en Limba Engleză Carte – 17 oct 2023
Beggar Bee Nameless follows Deceased Affairs officer Shane Ellis’s investigation to uncover the name of a recently deceased beggar. The reader will be immersed in the life of the ‘Nameless’ and his unlikely companionship with fellow vagabond, the fierce and enigmatic Gracie. Product of an abusive childhood, she is convinced that a homeless life is the only life worth living and has found the means to survive through her principles known as the Beggar’s Code. Shane’s investigation allows her to overcome her own loss in a tale of grief, love and redemption and, ultimately, poses fundamental questions for us all about what it means to have a home.Beggar Bee Nameless is an enlightening humanisation of homeless life. It provides a unique understanding from the perspective of characters that, for one reason or another, have found themselves un-homed. Readers will discover a simultaneously heart-warming and heart-breaking account of homelessness and will be provoked to explore a different perspective and reconsider the place of homeless people within society. Philosophising and abrasive, this novel is transparent and provides a refreshingly honest insight into one of society's greatest failings.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781912092451
ISBN-10: 191209245X
Pagini: 199
Dimensiuni: 127 x 203 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Editura: Arkbound
Colecția Palavro
Locul publicării:Bristol, United Kingdom

Recenzii

A powerful and uplifting tale of two intersecting narratives.Shane Ellis is a Deceased Affairs Officer who works for Manchester City Council. Her job is to investigate cases of the Nameless, people who have died but are unidentified. She is assigned the case of a beggar who has perished from exposure.Red is bullied, unhappy and unloved; he runs away from hometo the streets of Manchester. In the canteen of a charitableshelter he meets another rough sleeper, the fierce and enigmaticGracie. Product of an abusive childhood, she is convinced thata vagrant life is the only life worth living, and teaches him the‘Beggar’s Code’, a set of principles by which she survives in abrutal and dangerous world.Shane’s investigation soon leads her to the story of Red andGracie. In their dignity against the odds she finds the key toovercoming a terrible loss of her own, and across time andspace their lives interlink in a tale of grief, hope and redemption.
'The author expertly manoeuvres between different aspects of homelessness with sensitivity and insight, which include heartbreak, hunger and hostility towards ‘muggles’ (the non-homeless). The book also analyses the role of homelessness in society and offers a variety of fascinating perspectives you might not have even considered. In all, Beggar Bee Nameless successfully brings together the experiences of those on and off the street, reminding us that if we all walked in step with one another, the world would be a better place. It is more than worth the read.'- Anna